RegTech Insight White Paper
Post-trade ETD – where all the sticking plaster got used!
The fund management industry’s shift to passive funds and embrace of smart-beta funds over the past decade or so has shaved margins to the extreme. In this environment, operational efficiency becomes an existential issue. Across a broad swathe of asset classes, front-office technologies have kept pace with massive changes in market structure driven by regulation...
MiFID II: What’s Next?
With regulators indicating that they will enforce MiFID II in the second half of this year, how robust is your compliance solution? How ready is it to take on the oncoming requirements of the regulation? And to what extent do you need to review and renew systems to achieve a sustainable, industrialised and cost-efficient solution?...
MiFID II: Industrialising the Response Using UL BRIDGE
Many firms within the scope of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) struggled to meet the regulation’s deadline of January 3, 2018 and are now waking up to the fact that many of the processes put in place for implementation day are not sustainable. To achieve and maintain MiFID II compliance over time...
Regulatory Compliance: The Use of Twitter in Financial Services
Twitter has emerged as a source of market-moving information. But it’s difficult to get Twitter delivered to your trading desk, for a variety of reasons, ranging from concerns about market abuse, to the proliferation of fake news and the potential risk of reputational damage. By banning Twitter, trading firm management may be seeking to avoid...
Managing data for the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB)
FRTB presents banks with a number of organisational, computational and data granularity challenges. These require firms to review the structure of their trading desks, adopt revised risk models, and source extensive data including 10-plus years of time-series data. This white paper, sponsored by Thomson Reuters and GoldenSource, details the regulation’s demand for additional data, examines...
Meeting Client and Counterparty Identity Requirements Under MiFID II
The January 3, 2018 compliance deadline for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) is approaching fast, requiring firms within its scope to ensure they have access to LEIs to identify all clients, counterparties and issuers they deal with. As the industry mantra goes, and in line with MiFID II and its related Markets...
Data Governance and Quality Control for Emerging Regulatory Imperatives
Impending regulations, following recent price manipulation investigations, will require trading firms to have new data governance and quality controls in place. A new benchmarking study by CJC, in association with A-Team Group, conducted amongst professionals within major Tier 1 and Tier 2 sell side institutions, explores the data governance demands posed by new and emerging...
MiFID II: Setting a Mobile Policy for Compliance and Trading Business
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) requires firms to record all trading-related electronic and voice communication. This includes recording communications made using mobile devices, whether they are firm or employee owned. The directive also extends previous requirements to record and store communications that resulted in a trade, to record and store communications that...
MiFID II: Time for Action
As the January 3, 2018 compliance deadline for Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) approaches, trading businesses within the scope of the regulation must address outstanding technology issues around elements such as transparency, best execution, algorithmic trading, high frequency trading, time synchronisation and systematic internalisation. This White Paper, sponsored by Itiviti, discusses MiFID...
How to Tackle the Challenges of GDPR
Financial institutions around the world are bracing themselves for the onset of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which introduces eye-watering financial penalties for firms failing to meet stringent new rules on managing the personal data of EU residents. GDPR – which comes into effect in May 2018 – will have a major impact...